Posted on 07/18/2011 2:04:07 PM PDT by DFG
The San Francisco Superior Court is laying off more than 40 percent of its staff and shuttering 25 courtrooms because of budget cuts.
Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein said Monday that the cuts mean it will take many more hours to pay a traffic ticket in person, up to 18 months to finalize a divorce and five years for a lawsuit to go to trial. The cuts go into effect on Sept. 30 and are needed to close a $13.75 million deficit.
Some 200 of the court's 480 workers will be let go, including 11 of 12 commissioners who preside over a variety of cases.
Feinstein said the deficit was caused by the $350 million budget cut that Sacramento lawmakers made to the courts to approve the state's annual budget.
I think this is what they call “a good start.”
Are there any downsides?
The court wants a BAIL-OUT?!?!?! Hahaha! BAIL-out? Get it? You see, bail is like when . . . awww, never mind.
Less gov in SF is good news. Lay off more gov employees. Let them eat cake, like the rest of us.
I am pretty certain those fired people voted for Frisco to pay for city employees who want to change genders.
How sad, too bad. That’s what happens in the egalitarian paradise,
Yup. Great start! Now, cut, baby, cut!!
I don’t know if this is THE event, but some cut back of “services” is going to throw California into a Greece-like snit of protesting/riots/strikes...I can’t say I won’t be laughing a bit. Can’t print money like the feds.
Watch Oakland when “services” start to really be cut back. Looting and shooting. That won’t make me laugh, but I won’t be surprised.
Mail your traffic fine, go to San Jose for your divorces and lawsuits - if you want them bad enough the drive is nothing.
Problem Solved.
I don’t see anywhere in the article where they state how many judges are being given their walking papers.
You’ll be there all day to pay a traffic ticket, folks. But if two men want to get married they will immediately move to the head of the line.
One wonders what the total costs for housing, med care, law enforcement, and other service and support costs associated illegal aliens might be, and how these costs compete with needed services for legal taxpaying citizens.
And, one wonders if Friscans will ever make this connection (of losing quality of life while supporting those who do not deserve or appreciate support.)
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ya don’t need courts in utopia.
Given the California judiciary this is the best news in years and years. Now if we can just close the Ninth Circuit Federal Courts many criminals would be jailed, those deserving it would be beaten and hung. As a result of the closure of the courts and the loss by the criminals of their privileged status we could all laugh again. Husband and wives could stroll hand in hand in the evening; children could frolic; we could have clowns, jugglers, high wire artists and general merriment; illegal aliens would taken to the border in trains, buses, taxi’s cargo planes; a reduction in the tax burden would occur; people would be hired on merit and enrolled in Universities because they are worthy; the quality of medical school graduates would improve. We would be restored at least to partial social health. Closing the courts “IS A GOOD THING!”
None, unless you need to pay or contest a traffic ticket in person, file for divorce, sue someone, or wait in line for anything else that is handled in Superior Court. The article doesn't say if this will affect the criminal cases. (I recently visited a superior court about an estate matter.)
Don’t the SF courts just let everyone walk anyway?
It’s good that they’re cutting out the middle man and just turn everyone loose. :)
Hmm... and to whom might “Katherine Feinstein” be related?
Ooh, that’s a toughy. (her daughter actually).
Democrats: when it’s not corruption it’s nepotism
Wrong!!! San Jose was just below San Francisco on the Ten Most Poorly Managed Cities (read the most in debt). Look for San Jose to follow suit. Their courts have to manage the same legislative cutbacks as the marxist judicial system does in SF. The only remaining problem we have here is being able to protect yourself. If there’s trouble, a CCW permit isn’t going to prevent folks from having a gun on them.
The article does say that criminal cases won’t be affected.
“The future is very, very bleak for our courts,” Feinstein said at a Monday press conference. Feinstein said criminal cases would remain largely unaffected because of constitutional guarantees of speedy trials. Every other type of court, though, is facing significant cutbacks.
“One wonders what the total costs for housing, med care, law enforcement, and other service and support costs associated illegal aliens might be, and how these costs compete with needed services for legal taxpaying citizens.”
These costs aren’t just passed on to local taxpayers - we’re all getting whacked as a result of these “sanctuary cities”.
“Subsidizing Sanctuaries: The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program,” a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, found that the federal grant program commonly known as SCAAP allocated $62.2 million — more than 15 percent of its $400 million total — to 27 jurisdictions that are widely considered to be “sanctuary communities.”
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